KRCL's Best of 2021: DJ Picks

  • December 13, 2021
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We're not sure about 2021, but we do know that a lot of great music was made and released. Check out favorite albums and songs from some of KRCL DJs. 

Ebay's Favorite Albums of 2021:

Jon Batiste / We Are
Arlo Parks / Collapsed in Sunbeams
Heartless Bastards / A Beautiful Life
Yola / Stand For Myself
Jungle / Loving in Stereo
My Morning Jacket / My Morning Jacket
The War On Drugs / I Don't Live Here Anymore
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats / The Future
The Black Keys / Delta Kream
St. Vincent / Daddy's Home

Eugenie's Favorite Women Who Rock 2021: 

Yola / Stand for Myself
Sleater-Kinney / Path of Wellness
St. Vincent / Daddy's Home
Heartless Bastards / A Beatutiful Life
Amythyst Kiah / Wary + Strange
Arlo Parks / Collapsed in Sunbeams
Allison Russell / Outside Child
The Weather Station / Ignorance
Ani DiFranco / Revolutionary Love
Cleo Sol / Mother
Valerie June / The Moon & Stars: Perscriptions For Dreamers 

Connor, Host of The Late Night Low Down Favorites of 2021:

Helado Negro - Far In
El Michels Affair - Yeti Season
Jenevieve - Division
Cola Boyy - Prosthetic Boombox
Lady Wray - Through It All EP
Poolside - High Season
Shook - System
Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning
SAULT - Nine
C. Tangana - El Madrileno

Courtney Blair, host of Afternoon Delight, Favorites of the Year:

Altin Gün: Yol
Arlo Parks: Collapsed in Sunbeams
Bomba Estéreo: Deja
CHAI: Wink
Chvrches: Screen Violence
The Coral: Coral Island
Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg
Ducks Ltd: Modern Fiction
Greentea Peng: Man Made
Half Waif: Mythopoetic
Helado Negro: Far In
Idles: Crawler
Indigo De Souza: Any Shape You Take
Jane Weaver: Flock
Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee
L’Rain: Fatigue
Little Sims: Sometime I Might Be Introvert
Matt Berry: The Blue Elephant
Molly Burch: Romantic Images
Pom Pom Squad: Death of a Cheerleader
Snail Mail: Valentine
Squid: Bright Green Field
The Weather Station: Ignorance
The War on Drugs: I Don’t Live Here
Vanishing Twin: Ookii Gekkou

Ma Black host of Night Estéreo Best tracks of 2021:

1. Ambar Lucid - " The Door"
2. The Marías - " Hush"
3. Bomba Estéreo - "Deja"
4. Reyna Tropical - "Luna" (single)
5. Sávila - "Lluvia"
6. Billie Ellish & ROSALÍA - "Lo Vas a Olvidar"
7. Maye - " Yours" (single)
8. Helado Negro - "Gemini and Leo" single)
9. Bruna Mendez - feat. David Sabbag) - "Mapa"
10. Glass Spells - "Thrills"
Bonus track
11. Glass Spells " Fears"

Brian Kelm host of Red, White and Blues Best of the Blues 2021 - Top Blues CD's (in no particular order) (Disclaimer - it should be noted that these are simply 20 of my favorite CD’s that came into KRCL and/or I otherwise came across. There are simply too many good blues CD’s out there for me to buy them all up!)

Skylar Rogers – Firebreather (Self 1/29/21)
Selwin Birchwood – Living In A Burning House (Alligator 1/29/21)
AJ Fullerton - The Forgiver and the Runaway (VizzTone 3/26/21)
Chris Cain – Raisin’ Cain (Alligator 4/9/21)
Bob Corritore & Friends – Spider In My Stew (VizzTone/SWMAF 5/14/21)
Tia Carroll – You Gotta Have It (Little Village Foundation 5/14/21)
Crystal Thomas - Now Dig This!! (Dialtone 5/21/21)
Deb Ryder – Memphis Moonlight (VizzTone 6/11/21)
Christone Kingfish Ingram – 662 (Alligator 7/23/21)
Johnny Tucker feat. Kid Ramos and the Allstars – 75 and Alive (HighJohn Records 8/20/21)
Altered Five Blues Band – Holler If You Hear Me (Blind Pig 9/3/21)
Lindsay Beaver & Brad Stivers – self titled (VizzTone 9/10/21)
Eric Bibb – Dear America (Provogue 9/10/21) [always have to have at least 1 acoustic CD!]
Tony Holiday Front Porch Sessions 2 (Blue Heart Records 9/17/21) [another acoustic!]
Mark Hummel - Mark Hummel Presents East Bay Blues Vaults 1976-1988 (Electro-Fi 9/17/21)
Tommy Castro – A Bluesman Came to Town (Alligator 9/17/21)
Joanne Shaw Taylor – The Blues Album (KTBA Records 9/24/21)
Thorbjorn Risager and the Black Tornado – Best of (9/24/21 Ruf)
Carolyn Wonderland – Tempting Fate (Alligator 10/8/21)
Sue Foley – Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain 10/22/21)

Loud and Clear Youth Radio Top 10 Albums of 2021 in no particular order:

Planet Her - Doja Cat - Becca's Choice
Donda - Kanye West - Christa's Choice
gg bb xx - LANY - Ben's Choice
MONTERO - Lil Nas X - Finn's Choice
Scaled and Icy - Twenty One Pilots - Quin's Choice
Solar Power - Lorde - Christa's Choice
The Fridge - Gezebelle Gaburgably - Ginger's Choice
Dark Rooms Ep - Em Harris - Ginger's Choice
THE UNDERWORLD OF ENDLESS WANDERING - Merakirozes - Christa's Choice


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